StrikeForce went down last night and it was a mix of good and bad. The main event had Jake Shields submitting Robbie Lawler in just two minutes. While I picked Lawler to win, I am not surprised at all by this outcome. Everyone knew that Shields had the better submission game and if he could slap on a submission, the fight would be over. Despite what every tv commentator ever has said, guillotine chokes with one arm in are indeed still legit fight finishers. We've seen that over and over now. Even if the guy getting choked out has an arm in, he is still in trouble. Shields has one or two fights left on his StrikeForce deal and I'm no really sure what they do with him now. Some people want Riggs, and while Riggs did look better last night than I have seen him in a while, he is still no threat at all to Shields. A fight with Nick Diaz is intriguing, and that could be Shields' next fight.
I said all along that if Arlovski and Rogers fought each other two or three years from now, I would go with Rogers for sure, but right now Arlovski just had too much good experience for someone like Rogers. However Arlovski confirmed any doubts anyone had that he does indeed have a glass jaw. Just like the main event, I picked this fight wrong but I am not surprised at all by the outcome. When you put in a heavy handed puncher with someone who has a weak jaw, the puncher has a chance to win at any point. Arlovski with this fight goes from my number 2 heavyweight to probably falling out of the top 10. This fight really puts Arlovski's boxing career in the crapper. Obviously he will not be making his pro boxing debut at the end of this month as planned. If he gets knocked out by MMA fighters, I can only imagine how his pro boxing fights will end up.
Nick Diaz throws a crap load of punches and I don't see anyone in StrikeForce who will be able to handle the sheer volume of punches that Diaz throws. When you throw that many punches, odds are a bunch will get through and they will do some damage. A fight with Shields is definitely something that interests me. Joe Riggs looked better than he has in a long, long time. However it was against Phil Baroni and as I said before the fight, I could care less about this fight. Same went for the Whitehead/Randleman fight which was tough to watch. The biggest upset on the card was in the prelims as Mike Kyle took out Rafael Cavalcante via stoppage late in the second round. Cavalcante went from originally scheduled to fight Babalu on this card to losing a prelim fight to one of the most hated fighters in MMA today. Ouch.
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